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Sports community platform Stadium Live raises $10M to expand its digital world for Gen Z

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announced its $10 million Series A funding round to continue its mission of bringing fantasy sports to a younger generation. The Canadian startup was founded in 2020 by Kevin Kim and Paul Xu with the goal of gamifying the sports fandom and building a “digital playground” of sorts for Gen Z sports fans.

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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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Last June, Niantic laid off 8% of its staff — about 85 to 90 people — and canceled four of its projects, including a Transformers game that had already entered beta testing. Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture? As a sports ignoramus, I can’t speak on the former point.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

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Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. Social recommendations remain an area today’s app stores don’t address. During tests with 6,000+ users, Skich saw a 21.5%

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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

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The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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OpenSponsorship lands new capital to bring brands, athletes together

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Ishveen Anand grew up in England playing sports all of her life, including during her time at Oxford. However, what she found was that the process was inefficient — the sports world was slow-moving in terms of brands getting contracts with athletes. OpenSponsorship deals page.

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Mark Cuban-backed fintech Dave’s public offering puts SPACs to the test

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But not every company going public via a SPAC is an EV company with an issue telling the truth or a social networking “company” of a former president famous for sporting a lack of connection to reality. We’ve also seen SPAC deals announced or completed with companies of imperfect repute.

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AFL launches Just Walk Out technology to tackle queues at Marvel Stadium

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While best known for Aussie rules games, Marvel Stadium has also hosted some of the biggest international sporting events such as UFC, FIFA World Cup Qualifiers and international rugby union tests. My goal in my role as a technologist is not to be the best sports stadium in the world.